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Ruiz, G. R. S., Maddison, W. P. & Galiano, M. E. (2019). A revision of the concept of Mago O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882, and proposal of a new genus (Araneae: Salticidae: Amycini). Zootaxa 4658(1): 124-140. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4658.1.5
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Sobczak, J. F., Sobczak, J. C. M., Padua, D., Fonseca, E. O., Nóbrega, F. A. de Sousa, Pires, J. C., Faustino, M. L. & Villanueva-Bonilla, G. A. (2019). First record of Anelosimus jucundus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896) (Araneae, Theridiidae) in the state of Ceará, Brazil. Check List 15(5): 933-936. doi:10.15560/15.5.933
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Baba, Y. G., Yamasaki, T. & Tanikawa, A. (2019). A new species of Siler (Araneae: Salticidae) from Japan. Arachnology 18(3): 253-257. doi:10.13156/arac.2019.18.3.253
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Jiang, X. K., Yu, Z. G., Guo, X. & Chen, H. M. (2019). Two new species of the genus Draconarius Ovtchinnikov, 1999 from southwest China (Araneae: Agelenidae: Coelotinae). Journal of Dali University 4(12): 58-62. doi:10.3969/j.issn.2096-2266.2019.12.010
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Chamé-Vázquez, D. & Ibarra-Núñez, G. (2019). A new species of Phonotimpus Gertsch & Davis, 1940 (Araneae: Phrurolithidae) from Mexico. Zootaxa 4545(1): 146-150. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4545.1.10
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Mora-Castro, R., Edwards, G. B. & Hanson-Snortum, P. (2019). Phenology of an urban population of Lyssomanes jemineus Peckham & Wheeler (Araneae: Salticidae) with a list of other jumping spiders from the same Costa Rican site. Peckhamia 194.1: 1-6.
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Yao, Z. Y., Kioko, G. M., Kioko, E. N. & Li, S. Q. (2019). Three new species of the spider family Pholcidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from Taita-Taveta, Kenya. Zootaxa 4651(1): 114-124. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4651.1.7
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Pedroso, D. R., Miranda, G. S. de & Baptista, R. L. C. (2019). Further advancements in the taxonomy of Trechona spiders (Araneae: Dipluridae): two new species, redescription of Trechona uniformis Mello‐Leitão, 1935, additions to descriptions of Trechona rufa Vellard, 1924 and Trechona venosa (Latreille, 1832) and key to the species. Austral Entomology 58(1): 204-219. doi:10.1111/aen.12364
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Rix, M. G., Raven, R. J., Austin, A. D., Cooper, S. J. B. & Harvey, M. S. (2018c). Systematics of the spiny trapdoor spider genus Bungulla (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae): revealing a remarkable radiation of mygalomorph spiders from the Western Australian arid zone. Journal of Arachnology 46(2): 249-344. doi:10.1636/JoA-S-17-057.1
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Ranasinghe, U. G. S. L. & Benjamin, S. P. (2018b). Taxonomic descriptions of nine new species of the goblin spider genera Cavisternum, Grymeus, Ischnothyreus, Opopaea, Pelicinus and Silhouettella (Araneae, Oonopidae) from Sri Lanka. Evolutionary Systematics 2: 65-80. doi:10.3897/evolsyst.2.25200
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Kallal, R. J. & Hormiga, G. (2018b). Systematics, phylogeny and biogeography of the Australasian leaf-curling orb-weaving spiders (Araneae: Araneidae: Zygiellinae), with a comparative analysis of retreat evolution. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 184(4): 1055-1141. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zly014
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Azevedo, G. H. F, Griswold, C. E. & Santos, A. J. (2018b). Systematics and evolution of ground spiders revisited (Araneae, Dionycha, Gnaphosidae). Cladistics 34(6): 579-626. doi:10.1111/cla.12226
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Rix, M. G., Huey, J. A., Cooper, S. J. B., Austin, A. D. & Harvey, M. S. (2018b). Conservation systematics of the shield-backed trapdoor spiders of the nigrum-group (Mygalomorphae, Idiopidae, Idiosoma): integrative taxonomy reveals a diverse and threatened fauna from south-western Australia. ZooKeys 756: 1-121 & Suppl. (Atlas of male morphology: shield-backed trapdoor spiders (Idiosoma nigrum-group)). doi:10.3897/zookeys.756.24397
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Mikhailov, K. G. (2018b). Arachnid types in the Zoological Museum of the Moscow State University. III. Aranei 2 (Arachnida). Arthropoda Selecta 27(2): 177-186. doi:10.15298/arthsel.27.2.10
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Gündüz, G. & Allahverdi, H. (2018b). A new species record of Pholcus Walckenaer, 1805 in Turkey (Araneae: Pholcidae). Serket 16(1): 27-29.
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Gündüz, G. & Allahverdi, H. (2018a). Two new records of the genus Agroeca Westring, 1861 (Araneae: Liocranidae) from Turkey. Munis Entomology and Zoology 13(1): 181-184.
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Kallal, R. J. & Hormiga, G. (2018a). An expanded molecular phylogeny of metaine spiders (Araneae, Tetragnathidae) with description of new taxa from Taiwan and the Philippines. Invertebrate Systematics 32(2): 400-422. doi:10.1071/IS17058
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Ranasinghe, U. G. S. L. & Benjamin, S. P. (2018a). Three new species of Aprusia (Araneae: Oonopidae) from Sri Lanka with a phylogenetic analysis of the genus. Journal of Natural History 52(11-12): 713-738. doi:10.1080/00222933.2018.1444803
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Zamani, A., Mirshamsi, O., Mohammadi Kashani, G. & Karami, L. (2018a). New data on the spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Araneae), part V. Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics 13(2, for 2017): 183-197. [publ. in July 2018] doi:10.22067/ijab.v13i2.72404
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Azevedo, G. H. F, Griswold, C. E. & Santos, A. J. (2018a). To complicate or to simplify? Phylogenetic tests of complexity trends and genital evolution in ground spiders (Araneae: Dionycha: Gnaphosidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 84(3): 673-694. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zly016
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Caleb, J. T. D., Sanap, R. V., Patel, K. G., Sudhin, P. P., Nafin, K. S. & Sudhikumar, A. V. (2018a). First description of the female of Chrysilla volupe (Karsch, 1879) (Araneae: Salticidae: Chrysillini) from India, with notes on the species’ distribution and life history. Arthropoda Selecta 27(2): 143-153. doi:10.15298/arthsel.27.2.06
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Mikhailov, K. G. (2018a). Arachnid types in the Zoological Museum of the Moscow State University. II. Aranei 1 (Arachnida). Arthropoda Selecta 27(1): 95-105. doi:10.15298/arthsel.27.1.12
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Rix, M. G., Main, B. Y., Raven, R. J. & Harvey, M. S. (2018a). Systematics of the spiny trapdoor spiders of the genus Eucanippe (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae: Aganippini) from south-western Australia: documenting a poorly-known lineage from Australia's biodiversity hotspot. Journal of Arachnology 46(1): 133-154 & Appendix "Atlas of male morphology spiny trapdoor spiders (genus Eucanippe)". doi:10.1636/JoA-S-17-030.1
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Edwards, G. B. & Baert, L. (2018). New species, combinations, and records of jumping spiders in the Galápagos Islands (Araneae: Salticidae). Belgian Journal of Entomology 67: 1-27.
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Kallal, R. J., Fernández, R., Giribet, G. & Hormiga, G. (2018). A phylotranscriptomic backbone of the orb-weaving spider family Araneidae (Arachnida, Araneae) supported by multiple methodological approaches. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 126: 129-140. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2018.04.007
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Otto, S. & Japoshvili, G. (2018). The spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the Lagodekhi Reserve, Georgia: faunistic results of a transect study and an updated checklist. Arachnology 17(8): 375-391. doi:10.13156/arac.2017.17.8.375
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Özkütük, R. S., Yağmur, E. A., Kunt, K. B., Karakaş Kiliç, G. & Elverici, M. (2018). Türkiye'den bilinen iki Harpactea Bristowe, 1939 (Araneae, Dysderidae) türünün yeniden betimlenmesi [Redescription of two species of Harpactea Bristowe, 1939 (Araneae, Dysderidae) known from Turkey]. Anadolu University Journal of Science and Technology, C 7(1): 20-30. doi:10.18036/aubtdc.335037
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Salgado, A. & Ruiz, G. R. S. (2018). Two new species of Neonella Gertsch, 1936 (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryini). Zootaxa 4394(4): 537-548. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4394.4.4
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Schendel, V., Junghanns, A., Bilde, T. & Uhl, G. (2018). Comparative female genital morphology in Stegodyphus spiders (Araneae: Eresidae). Zoologischer Anzeiger 273: 240-249. doi:10.1016/j.jcz.2018.01.011
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Zhang, J. S., Zhang, G. R. & Yu, H. (2018). Four species of spider genus Cheiracanthium C. L. Koch, 1839 (Araneae, Eutichuridae) from Jinggang Mountains, Jiangxi Province, China. ZooKeys 762: 33-45. doi:10.3897/zookeys.762.23786
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Szabó, G. & Szinetár, C. (2018). Egy barlangi (troglofil) pókfaj, a Kryptonesticus eremita (Simon, 1880) első magyarországi előfordulása (Araneae: Nesticidae) [First records of the troglofil spider species, Kryptonesticus eremita (Simon, 1880) from Hungary (Araneae, Nesticidae)]. Biológia Savaria Természettudományi és Sporttudományi Közlemények 17: 109-115.
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Harrison, S. E., Rix, M. G., Harvey, M. S. & Austin, A. D. (2018). Systematics of the Australian spiny trapdoor spiders of the genus Blakistonia Hogg (Araneae: Idiopidae). Zootaxa 4518(1): 1-76. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4518.1.1
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Ballesteros, J. A. & Hormiga, G. (2018). Species delimitation of the North American orchard-spider Leucauge venusta (Walckenaer, 1841) (Araneae, Tetragnathidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 121: 183-197. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2018.01.002
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Logunov, D. V. & Azarkina, G. N. (2018). Redefinition and partial revision of the genus Stenaelurillus Simon, 1886 (Arachnida, Araneae, Salticidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 430: 1-126. doi:10.5852/ejt.2018.430
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Tian, T., Zhou, G. C. & Peng, X. J. (2018). A new species of Pistius Simon, 1875 (Araneae: Thomisidae) from Wuling Mountains, China. Acta Arachnologica Sinica 27(1): 7-11. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2018.01.02
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Rix, M. G., Raven, R. J. & Harvey, M. S. (2018). Systematics of the giant spiny trapdoor spiders of the genus Gaius Rainbow (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae: Aganippini): documenting an iconic lineage of the Western Australian inland arid zone. Journal of Arachnology 46(3): 438-472. doi:10.1636/JoA-S-17-079.1
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Soliman, F. E., Moustafa, A. Y., Ismail, T. G. & El-Masry, S. M. (2018). Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Jazirat Shandweel District, Sohag Governorate, Egypt. Serket 16(3): 133-160.
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Oxford, G. & Bolzern, A. (2018). Molecules v. morphology—is Eratigena atrica (Araneae: Agelenidae) one species or three?. Arachnology 17(7): 337-357. doi:10.13156/arac.2017.17.7.337
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Guariento, L. A., Bonvicini, M. C., Ballarin, L., Devincenzo, U., Gardini, G., Moretto, E., Pantini, P. & Nicolosi, P. (2018). Giovanni Canestrini's heritage at the Zoology Museum of Padova University (Italy): a rediscovery of his arachnological collections and described species. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 55: 36-41. doi:10.30963/aramit5506
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Agnarsson, I., Van Patten, C., Sargeant, L., Chomitz, B., Dziki, A. & Binford, G. J. (2018). A radiation of the ornate Caribbean ‘smiley-faced spiders’, with descriptions of 15 new species (Araneae: Theridiidae, Spintharus). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 182(4): 758-790. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlx056
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Chamé-Vázquez, D., Ibarra-Núñez, G. & Jiménez, M. L. (2018). Redescription of Phonotimpus separatus Gertsch & Davis, 1940 (Araneae: Phrurolithidae) and description of two new species of Phonotimpus from Mexico. Zootaxa 4407(2): 213-228. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4407.2.3
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Rheims, C. A. & Alayón, G. (2018). A new genus of minute Sparianthinae spiders from the Caribbean (Araneae, Sparassidae). ZooKeys 742: 13-22. doi:10.3897/zookeys.742.21819
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Suguro, T., Baba, Y. G. & Yamauchi, T. (2018). Phrurolithus splendidus Song & Zheng 1992 (Araneae: Phrurolithidae), new to Japanese fauna. Acta Arachnologica 67(1): 19-21. doi:10.2476/asjaa.67.19
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Zhou, G. C., Irfan, M. & Peng, X. J. (2018). Redescription of Ketambea nigripectoris (Oi, 1960) comb. nov. (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Turkish Journal of Zoology 42(4): 488-494. doi:10.3906/zoo-1803-29
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Bedoya-Róqueme, E., Nadal, M. F. & Rubio, G. D. (2018). First record of the genus Helvetia Peckham & Peckham, 1894 (Araneae: Salticidae: Chrysillini) from Colombia and extension of its distribution in Argentina. Peckhamia 175.1: 1-10.
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Azarkina, G. N., Lyubechanskii, I. I., Trilikauskas, L. A., Dudko, R. Y., Bespalov, A. N. & Mordkovich, V. G. (2018). A check-list and zoogeographic analysis of the spider fauna (Arachnida: Aranei) of Novosibirsk Area (West Siberia, Russia). Arthropoda Selecta 27(1): 73-93. doi:10.15298/arthsel.27.1.11
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Perger, R. & Rubio, G. D. (2018). A wolf in sheep’s clothing: the description of a fly resembling jumping spider of the genus Scoturius Simon, 1901 (Araneae: Salticidae: Huriini). PLoS One 13(1, 0190582): 1-12. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0190582
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Azarkina, G. N., Zoumides, C. & Hadjiconstantis, M. (2018). First description of the female of Aelurillus cypriotus Azarkina 2006 (Araneae: Salticidae). Acta Arachnologica 67(1): 49-54. doi:10.2476/asjaa.67.49
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Campuzano, E. F. & Ibarra-Núñez, G. (2018). A new species of the spider genus Wirada (Araneae, Theridiidae) from Mexico, with taxonomic notes on the genus and a key to the species. Zootaxa 4457(3): 495-500. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4457.3.13
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Huang, G. Q., Chen, H. M. & Zhang, Z. S. (2018). A new species of the genus Hahnia C. L. Koch, 1841 (Araneae: Hahniidae) frim Guizhou, China. Sichuan Journal of Zoology 37(4): 456-460. doi:10.11984/j.issn.1000-7083.20170392
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